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Barack Obama: 47%: John McCain 40% ABC News/Washington Post [331] May 8–11, 2008 Hillary Clinton: 49%: John McCain 46% Not reported Not reported Barack Obama: 51%: John McCain 44% NPR/Public Opinion Strategies/Greenberg Quinlan Rosner [332] May 7–8, 10, 2008 Hillary Clinton 45% John McCain: 46%: 800 LV ±3.46% Barack Obama: 48%: John McCain 43%
Barack Obama John McCain Main article: United States presidential election, 2008 This article provides line graphs and bar charts of scientific, nationwide public opinion polls that have been conducted relating to the 2008 United States presidential election .
2008 United States presidential election ← 2004 November 4, 2008 2012 → 538 members of the Electoral College 270 electoral votes needed to win Opinion polls Turnout 61.6% 1.5 pp Nominee Barack Obama John McCain Party Democratic Republican Home state Illinois Arizona Running mate Joe Biden Sarah Palin Electoral vote 365 173 States carried 28 + DC + NE-02 22 Popular vote 69,498,516 ...
Poll Source Date administered (2008) Barack Obama John McCain Margin Sample size Margin of error
When the polls closed, Obama won the state by a narrower margin: 10 points. He earned 54% of the vote, but McCain got 44%. 2004: John Kerry has lead over President George W. Bush
During most of the summer and September, McCain led many state polls, many by 50% or more. Rasmussen had McCain leading with as high as 51% in September. [15] But many voters in the state changed their minds as Obama later gained a steady lead in most polls taken starting in the beginning of October (around the time of the 2008 financial crisis).
The poll average was off by 0.3%, with Obama instead gaining only 7.3% more of the popular vote than McCain. The poll average projected McCain would receive 44.5% of the popular vote. He bested this by 1.1%, actually garnering 45.6% of the popular vote. [370] Poll numbers varied greatly the day before the election and through the election season.
Maps and electoral vote counts for the 2012 presidential election. Our latest estimate has Obama at 281 electoral votes and Romney at 191.